While Harlem Renaissance scholars have extensively covered the era's most influential artists and political leaders, little has been written about another group exemplifying the era's spirit of the New Negro: black aviators. Sports and entertainment co-existed and shared the stage with the arts during the Harlem Renaissance, most prominently on the pages of the black press, where, among articles and reports on the latest political, societal, and sporting news of the day, readers could regularly learn about the groundbreaking successes of black aviators. What this monograph uncovers and traces is that between 1921 and 1939, the years coinciding with the Harlem Renaissance era, an entire campaign promoting and advocating for the development of aviation among black Americans took place on the pages of the black press and consequently led to the establishment of an aviation school at the Tuskegee Institute. The black press archive reveals that a group of journalists, led by George S. Schuyler and J.A. Rogers, working in symbiosis with a number of black pilots, wrote reports, interviews, short stories, drama, and poetry to attract the African American public to aviation events, inform them about recent developments, instill racial pride, and advocate for support for all-black schools and clubs during the highly-segregated Golden Age of Aviation. The New Negro aviators, including prominent female and West Indian pilots, promoted Harlem Renaissance's internationalism by flying to and even fighting for various black nations in the Caribbean, Africa, and Europe. They established segregated schools and clubs to promote technical education and counter existing stereotypes of African Americans' innate technical incompetence. They planned segregated airlines to circumvent Jim Crow and presented themselves to black America as race leaders and role models excelling, despite the odds, in a field which Charles Lindbergh famously dubbed "a scientific art [...] especially shaped for W